Saturday Night Live

This thread started 17 years ago bitching about how snl was bad.

Two minutes into the first episode, there were people saying that the previous minute was better.

"SNL used to be good in [insert your prefeered era] and now it sucks" is like the most boring and predictable thing to say about SNL.

I'm going back to the Simpsons thread

Oh, you mean that Tracey Ullman Show spin off?

obv the show has had ups and lots of downs through its lifetime but it does seem like the Jost-era has been the longest uninterrupted shitty stretch(?)

it has always felt like the casting is the problem--jesus, the people they've passed on.

"SNL used to be good in [insert your prefeered era] and now it sucks" is like the most boring and predictable thing to say about SNL.

― Ramen? No thanks, I prefer them cooked (Ye Mad Puffin), 16. september 2019 15:32 (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nah, honestly this is the most boring and predictable thing to say about SNL.

lol

confession: I thought SNL was really insufferable during the Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin years

SNL must not hire Rajat pic.twitter.com/cvHlVl59Bu

— JEREMY (@jeremylevick) September 13, 2019

Herman Woke (cryptosicko) at 11:27 13 Sep 19

I still don’t know what Pete Davidson actually does on this show.


he does a lot of bit stuff where they need a "teenager" or pizza delivery guy or shit like that in a sketch

show hasn't really had a breakout person since McKinnon came on.

Feel like if Heidi Gardner keeps it up, she'll be the next breakout. She's pretty much the only reason I kept watching this past season.

contra the above point that every era of the show has a similar hit/miss ratio, i've gotten to the franken/davis years after lorne's comeback in my rewatch, and i am actually really enjoying it. there's the expected and unfortunate amounts of misogyny and homophobia, but it hasn't become as pseudo-'transgressive' as the mid-to-late-'90s, and it seems way more 'writerly'(?), thinking of stuff like the hartman/lovitz 'permission to speak freely' sketch, or matthew modine portraying 'the liberal' as a hero on the run in the vein of the era's lightly-serialized action shows. even the game show parodies are a bit more conceptual.

the h.w. bush stuff does seem like a shift to how the show will deal with powerful political figures going forward, just exaggerate one or two traits and lean on them in a kind of gentle caricature, but mostly the political stuff is way less toothless than now. or maybe i just really love dennis miller's hair.

The two sketches that I liked a lot from last season, off the top of my head, were Sandler's Romano Tours and the Don Cheadle bar fight.

RE: Gillis - not entirely sure why anyone would want to defend or hang on to a guy who voluntarily opted multiple times to release a bunch of racist jokes and speeches onto the internet for self-promotion? This seems cut and dried to me and it's fucking weird that apparently it's not. This isn't cancel culture, it's just the realpolitik of you can say anything you want but then you have to take responsibility for saying it and, in this case, maybe don't give one of the fifteen most sought after writing/acting gigs on the planet to someone who has engaged in this behavior within the past five year?

was the donald glover oran "juice" jones sketch last season or the year before?

it's also fun to chart the popularity of like hans and franz, from the 10-to-1 sketch on the '87 premiere to the cold open in '88, and imagine the legions of people enamored of this arnold parody, walking around the office threatening to 'pump you up!' and stuff.

Glover was the season before last. And that was such a wonderfully batshit sketch.

xp

He's out:

Shane Gillis is OUT at SNL. Per NBC: pic.twitter.com/NJJpLGABPp

— Andrew Chow (@andrewrchow) September 16, 2019

not american so don't watch SNL but his "apology" was the absolute worst and I hope he loses his next few jobs too

Romano Tours was great

Counting down the time for Shane Gillis to get hired as the new White House Press Secretary.

— Robert Ham (@roberthamwriter) September 16, 2019

this asshole is gonna turn into some kind of martyr king, eh

there's gonna be a "cancelled" comedy tour with him, ck, and nick dipaolo

More likely to find him on a IDW cruise

we're so cancelled that we can only sell out nyc city center, not the beacon!

For any comedian that is angry about “PC culture,” Desus and Mero are setting an example for y’all.

This is so simple, idk what’s so hard to understand pic.twitter.com/FWdPVmIV8h

— antonio (@ADDelgiacco) February 22, 2019

like desus says there, it's not even good business! World's changing; if you wanna have fans who are into your shit in ten years, maybe don't be a blatant asshole now and alienate more than half of your potential audience.

Smooth, this guy.

pic.twitter.com/vN0htGMBVg

— Shane Gillis (@Shanemgillis) September 16, 2019

disagree with that, forks

1) comedians (or musicians or artists or) should not be trying to appeal to 100% of the potential audience

2) dipshit racist and sexist fuckwits should absolutely say whatever they think is funny, so ppl who don't want to be their audience can figure this out really quickly

1) i'm saying if, as a comedian, you wanna play by pascal's wager
2) yeah, probably

Gillis is from my area (south central PA) and it was hilarious to see the local paper immediately pivot from “Trinity High School graduate joins the cast of SNL” to “Trinity High School graduate under fire for using racist language.” (Don’t know the guy, but a mutual acquaintance has deemed him a major league asshole.)

how many Asian castmembers has SNL had throughout its run? I don't really watch it anymore but I cannot think of a single one

yang is the first

xpost That's part of what made this all notable -- Bowen Yang, another newly announced castmember, is the first.

Fred Armisen is a quarter Korean and half Venezuelan

Nasim Pedrad, if you count Iranian as Asian.

Rob Schneider's part Filipino too

I could watch parodies of shitty podcasts all day. Who is the guy that invented that?

'i was always a mad tv guy' contains worlds

Presumably he was a big fan of Alex Borstein's "Ms. Swan" character.

his passing resemblance to will sasso cursed him from birth to be a 'madtv guy'

I have to say, I had not before this incident ever seen ch**k asterisked out.

Shane Gillis reached out. Looks like we will be sitting down together soon.

— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) September 16, 2019

oh my fucking God

Can't wait for that presidential ticket.

Fuck off Norm

@Shanemgillis Hey, Shane, I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine how you must feel. The work it takes to get that show and to have it snatched away by some guy who does "Spoken Bird" poetry. Unacceptable. Please DM me, pal, when you have a moment. I'm so sorry.

— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) September 16, 2019

Nasim Pedrad, if you count Iranian as Asian.

For the great majority of US people, "Asians" only come from a very restricted part of Asia. For example, you aren't really "Asian" if you are from central Asia, so that Mongolians are Asian, but Uighurs or Kazakhs are not. Siberians generally aren't thought of as Asians, either.

norm kinda fucking sucks now

I still think he’s one of the best comedians ever but he’s carried water for a lot of shitty people these last 5 years and seems to be on the wrong side of everything these days

Like his brain is still stuck in the 80s